BOEHNER: You`re talking Dems, like you (inaudible) the work (inaudible).

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ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC HOST: Good to have with us tonight folks. Thanks for watching. Here is the latest on immigration. After failing to pass a Border Bill on Thursday, House Republicans are expected to vote on an even more radical bills, two of them tonight. Republicans had meetings all day today and cave to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. A new Border Bill would stop President Obama from taking executive actions similar to his 2012 deferred action on child arrivals that the program grants amnesty for children who come to this country without adult supervision and meets certain requirements.

Now the Bill would also stop the program from processing new children after July 30th, 2014 just a couple of days ago. Now earlier today Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said the Bill was radical enough for her to support.

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REP. MICHELE BACHMANN, (R) MINNESOTA: The dealing with the issue that the American people care about more than any other and that is stopping the invasion of illegal foreign nationals into our country and we got to yes. We did it because the leadership sat down with the vote no of coalition last night. They`re about 20 of us who are vote no. We put our concerns on the table and this needs to be said that this bill is so different from the bill yesterday until today that we effectively gutted yesterday`s Bill. This is a brand new Bill.

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SCHULTZ: So the radicals are winning out. Make no mistake about that, although this is a symbolic vote. Earlier today President Obama made clear that he veto the Draconian Bill.

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OBAMA: House Republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere. They can`t pass the Senate and that if it were to pass the Senate I would veto it. They know it. They`re not even trying to actually solve the problem. This is a message bill that they couldn`t quite pull off yesterday, so they made it a little more extreme so maybe they can pass it today. Just so they can check a box before they leave town for a month.

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SCHULTZ: President Obama went on to call out Republicans for asking him to take executive action the day after suing him.

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OBAMA: House Republicans suggested that since they don`t expect to actually pass a bill that I can sign, that I actually should go ahead and act on my own to solve the problem. Keep in mind that just a few days earlier, they voted to sue me for acting on my own and then when they couldn`t pass a bill yesterday they put out a statement suggesting I should act on my own because they could pass a bill.

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SCHULTZ: And you wonder why Americans across this country flat out hate what`s unfolding in Washington, D.C. Republicans have proven, they are successful at one thing and only one thing alone and that`s doing absolutely nothing. The latest polls shows at Gallup poll shows 80 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling their job. This should be of no surprise as 133th Congress is on track to be the least productive in American history. That`s what you`re paying for folks.

For antigovernment Republicans, this is what they want. Republicans want you and me to lose faith in our government. They want Washington, D.C. so dysfunctional, Americans, they want nothing to do with it. They won`t pay attention to what`s going on.

On Thursday, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said current Republican behavior in the House is unprecedented. Congresswoman Pelosi thinks that Republicans wants Americans to lose faith so they won`t vote.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI, (D-CA) MINORITY LEADER: This is something almost new in terms of abandoning the debate. We`ve always had in our country a healthy debate. If you are anti-governance, want you want to people to do is not participate in the electoral process. That confusion, the negativity that can emanate from here in a congressional election year is one that is not conducive to people exercising their voting rights.

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SCHULTZ: The latter is exactly right for Democrats. Republicans want you to hate Washington, D.C. so you sit it out. You don`t show up on November and you don`t vote. Meanwhile Republicans say one think and do another. The day after suing President Obama, John Boehner came out and said this.

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BOEHNER: Over the month of August, we`ll continue to make the American people priorities our priority and that means talking about our plan for jobs and the economy. And in September the House will focus on American solutions to help get people back to work, lower cost at home, and restore opportunity for all Americans.

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SCHULTZ: He never explains exactly what kind of bills they have passed in the House and have sent over to the Senate. Let me tell you what they are. They`ve got tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. They got tax cuts for corporations. Everything the American people don`t want is what Boehner has sent over to the Senate. Earlier today President Obama called out House Republicans on doing the opposite. He said Republicans are standing in the way of America`s success.

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OBAMA: I`ve been pushing for common sense ideas like rebuilding our infrastructure in ways that are sustained over many years and support of millions of good jobs and help businesses compete. I`ve been advocating on behalf of raising the minimum wage, making it easier for working folks to payoff their student loans, fair pay, paid leave. All these policies have two things in common. All of them would help working families feel more stable and secure and all of them so far have been blocked or ignored by Republicans in Congress.

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SCHULTZ: So let`s just take a look at how Republicans plan to restore opportunity for all Americans. The reality check is this, their game plan is to destroy opportunity, I think for all Americans. They don`t care. Here is the short list. President passes the Affordable Care Act. The law provided healthcare for million of Americans. Forgot the polls, lives are being saved. House Republicans, what have they done? Voted 56 times to repeal it.

Everyday we see the effects of climate change and we document it on this program, damaging nearly every corner of the earth. Science in denial. Science denying Republicans refuse to even acknowledge climate change is real. There`s not a scientist on the face of the earth that could convince them something is happening. Republicans are owned by the oil lobby. That might have something to do with it.

They push for more drilling and more pipelines at every opportunity. That will only make the problem worse. Sixty-five percent by the way of Americans roads are in less than good condition. Do you think we`d do something about that? Americans, we only spend 55 billion hours in traffic every year. But wait a minute, there`s one party out there that refuses to even put a long-term infrastructure bill up for a vote. They now that it would pass. The latest example is Republicans doing nothing on immigration. Every single thing Republicans do at this point and juncture is to make you lose faith in your government, to think that nothing can get in Washington.

No minimum wage vote, no extension of unemployment insurance which we could have paid for. You name it. Republicans ought to kill it. They`re going to kill everything they can. This is the Republican view of progress. This is their template, their game plan to make sure you don`t show up in November and you don`t make the change. Think about this, over 90 percent of American in this country wanted simple background checks. After Sandy Hook, we couldn`t get it because the lobby is so strong in Washington. That has signature everything else the rest of the way. If you can`t get that, what are you going to get? Not much except more radical talk.

Michele Bachmann says, the number problem in this country is the immigration. No, its not. The number one problem in this country is jobs and the Republicans have done nothing to help this President or the Democrats do anything to make sure that our treasury is solvent and that there`s fair taxation and jobs are being created. So instead they would rather have bridges crumble. They would rather have school buses and kids go over bridges that are insufficient. That`s the gamble they want to play and they want you to think that it`s all about bad government that`s not getting it done.

They want you to believe that its government, its America, we can`t get it done and it`s all because this Black guy is in the Whitehouse. He`s been the problem all along. This is how their playing the game to the midterms. Millions of Americans have been affected by this recovery. The numbers is out today, we`ll talk more about it later in the show. Millions of Americans have been affected by saving the automobile industry. Millions of Americans have been affected by healthcare change in this country.

You will not go broke under Obamacare if you get sick. That is a radical change. The insurance companies don`t own you totally anymore. Theirs is now some competition. There are options for you. This huge change but you`ve never know it. Listen to Republicans or listening to the conservative media in this country which is fueled by hate and anger and you want to know why Americans are pissed off at Washington D.C. Don`t tell me we can`t rally around things. Everybody was rooting for the soccer team. We know how to root for things that function, that at least have light at the end of the tunnel of functioning. But when you have an age of obstruction lead by Mr. Cantor who doesn`t have the guts to stick it out all the way after his constituents put him in office in Washington, that tells you everything you need to know about character of the Republicans.

It`s almost as if they`ll cheat to win. How do I -- how can I say that? Well look at the gerrymandering.

Get your cell phones out. I want to know what you think. Tonight`s question, "Do Republicans want Americans to lose faith in the political process? Text A for yes, text B for no to 67622. You can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. We`ll bring you the results later on in the show.

For more let me bring Democratic strategist and Professor, Bob Shrum tonight with us. Bob, good to have with you with us, always. It appears their strategy is to make people hate government and have them not show up for the ball game, so to speak. What`s unfolding here and has it ever been done before?

BOB SHRUM, WARSCHAW POLITICS PROFESSOR, USC: Well it`s never been done quite this level. I mean these folks hate the government. They can`t run the government so they want to run it down. They want to destroy confidence. So I think your right. Nancy Pelosi is right. Their whole script for the midterm is to try to discourage voters, get people to disengage, get people to not turn out.

And they`re being driven by the most extreme elements of their party, on immigration for example by King and Bachmann and Ted Cruz. And it`s political suicide for them in the long-term. Like in 2016, they can`t win the presidency doing this. But they think in 2014 their bet is that young people, Hispanics, single women wont turn out and vote for themselves and their interest and that somehow they can prevail.

But when you listen to the list of issues the President mentioned whether it`s minimum wage, whether it`s infrastructure, whether it`s tax reform, I actually think it`s unfair to call this a do nothing Congress. It`s a zombie congress ...

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

SHRUM: ... driven by ideology, convinced somehow or other that it can discourage enough people from voting and rely on gerrymandering and cheating. And by the way Ed, they do cheat all the way from the 2000 election on, the Republican Party has cheated in this process. And they are hoping that somehow or another they can hold on in 2014, take the Senate which will make things even worse.

SCHULTZ: You know, I hark it back to our friend Robert Greenwald who produced Outfoxed which was put out just over 10 years ago, that and anniversary not long ago. And the play book has always been "say one thing, do another" but keep ...

SHRUM: Right.

SCHULTZ: ... repeating things over and over again and people are going to believe what you`re saying. So Boehner have said all along that his priority is jobs and restoring opportunity but he`s done nothing to parallel that action whatsoever. So if it is to stall the government, to get people to hate government, to make sure nothing gets done on Obama`s watch, hasn`t Boehner in a jaded way been a very successful speaker for what they`ve really wanted to accomplish?

SHRUM: Well yes and no. I mean he`s very successful in the sense that he does feed this antigovernment move, although people are figuring this out by the way. You mentioned one poll at the top of this, at the top of this segment. The fact is the YouGov Poll shows this Republican Congress with a 7 percent approval rating. That`s historically low. I think he`s unsuccessful in a longer term sense.

The Republican Party cannot survive as the anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, anti-young people, anti-jobs party. Its just wont work and you know what their idea of a jobs bill is? I think you said it earlier. It`s another big tax cut for very wealthy people. They call it jobs.

SCHULTZ: Sure.

SHRUM: They hope people will think its jobs. That`s not what it is. And in country increasingly concerned with income and equality, I`d say Boehner`s short-term success is going to be a long-term failure.

SCHULTZ: So unpack what happened in the last 24 hours with Ted Cruz going over and yanking some arms over on the House side. Now there`s going to be two bills that are going to be voted on. How do you see this? The Tea Party not enough to take over the congress but certainly enough to make things miserable.

SHRUM: Well I guess in way, they have taken over the congress. Ted Cruz is more powerful than John Boehner. He`s more powerful than Mitch McConnell. He gave us a government shutdown. And in the last 24 hours he organized enough Republicans that they wouldn`t vote for even a bad border bill. Instead they came up with a Bigot`s Bill that would destroy the future of the dreamers. It alienates Hispanic voters. It`s a long term disaster for the Republican Party but he doesn`t care. They don`t care.

The Republicans Party is ...

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

SHRUM: ... dominated in its primaries and in its core now by a very angry remnant of Americans who are furious about the change in composition of the country and the fact that were becoming a majority of minorities and that we have, as you suggested earlier an African-American president of the United States. That`s what I think happened.

SCHULTZ: Bob Shrum, great to have you with us tonight. I appreciate your time always. Let me bring Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair and candidate for Lieutenant Governor in Florida, Annette Taddeo.

Annette, great to have you with us tonight. What damage do you think this has done? What message has this send out over the last 24 hours about immigration, the hassling that`s been going back on the conservative side?

ANNETTE TADDEO, (D-FL) LT. GOV. CANDIDATE: I think they`re making a huge mistake. They think that they are firing up their base. And I think what they don`t realize is they`re going to fire up us, because they tried this in 2012 with Barrack Obama and said, "We weren`t going to come out." And we actually came out in many more numbers. We, in Florida for example, actually delivered more votes in 2012 than we did in 2008 when we were so excited about the historic election and electing our first African-American president. And look 2012, we took more votes.

So, we`re going to do that again this time. I believe that in Florida especially we are going to come out in vote. We are affected by immigration. We have a lot of Hispanic here that really care about this. And this is a do nothing congress. And which is why here in Florida we have decided that Charlie Crist and I, when we get elected, on inauguration day, we`re going to use the pen to enact some first day of fairness, something much needed in Florida.

SCHULTZ: Annette, does this passion, is it going to play out in an off year election? Is, you know, this is, you know, I mean historically this is not great for Democrats but it could be because the issues are so different. Connect those two.

TADDEO: Well, I`ll give you a perfect example. We put out -- I just told you about the first day of fairness information that we put and one of them is equal pay for equal work, for women. And what do the Republicans do? Rick Scott comes out with five men, not one but two but five men to say, "You know what? This is outrageous." What`s outrageous is that you think that women should make 83 cents on the dollar of for every man for the same job.

I mean 10.10 an hour, that`s what we want to pay for minimum wages. It`s livable wage. And this is all the exact same stuff that`s going on at the federal level, is going at the state level in Florida. We need a change and I believe that our voters are going to come out because we know what we paid for in 2010 when stayed home.

We got terrible government at all levels and we cannot do that this time.

SCHULTZ: All right, Annette Taddeo, great to have you with us tonight. We`ll certainly do it again. I appreciate your time.

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SCHULTZ: Time now for Trenders. What`s hot and what`s not. Well, first of all, we want you to join the Ed Team. Follow us on Twitter @edshow and @wegoted. Like us on Facebook. You can get my radio podcast at wegoted.com, rawstory.com, ringoffireradio.com and on iTunes as we continue to grow.

Ed Show Social Media Nation has decided, we`re reporting. Here today`s top Trenders voted on by you.

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ERIC CANTOR: Not one of us should ever take for granted the awesome honor and responsibility we have to serve our fellow Americans.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Eric Cantor cut short his congressional career.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First (ph), I`m out of here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`d asked governor Terry McAuliffe to hold official election that coincides with the November 4 general election.

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CANTOR: It`s been an honor and a privilege to serve as majority leader of this distinguished body.

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SCHULTZ: Joining me tonight, John Fugelsang, Political Commentator and TV host. First of all, whatever happened to just serving out your time, he pulling the Palin.

JOHN FUGELSANG, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes.

SCHULTZ: He says that he now wants a special election so that the constituents in that district will have representation in the lame-duck. What`s wrong with him just doing his job? Your thoughts John.

FUGELSANG: Well, you know, I mean as he can make a $174,000 sitting in congress and doing nothing or make untold millions being a lobbyist and paying congressman, bribes to sit around and do nothing. I think we all know what this is about. He has to wait one year to become a lobbyist and this gives him a bit of a head start. And since he hates government waste so much he has asked Governor Terry McAuliffe to allow the good people of Virginia to pay for a special election.

SCHULTZ: You know Terry is not going to do that. I mean ...

FUGELSANG: No, Palin call him a quitter.

SCHULTZ: But here -- Yes, yes. That`s right. But this is the guy that met secretly with his colleagues and thought of obstruction. This is the guy who said no, it has been about him all alone.

FUGELSANG: Oh, all alone.

SCHULTZ: And John, I mean he is number one.

FUGELSANG: Yes.

SCHULTZ: This is -- this underscores, it`s always been about Sarah Palin and her world and it`s always been about Eric Cantor and his world, resigning from the House in the middle of vacation. How telling, isn`t it.

FUGELSANG: This why he does never job anymore Ed. It`s because the voters in his district know this is the truth. This guy wanted John Boehner`s job. Eric Cantor wanted to be speaker of the House for years. He was like Iago (ph) to John Boehner as a fellow, if a fellow is orange instead of black. And Boehner had to do deal with this for a time. If my best friend, you know, wanted my job, I`d spray to him my hangovers as well. And the voters have seen through this. They know it`s the clearest sign yet.

He is leaving for a number of reasons. Number one, it`s a lame-duck session. He is not going to do anything. Anything he does is going to get attack from all three sides. So why stick around? It does give him a head start on the lobbyist quest. And even more so, I think that the most important thing about it is it proves that he was always just about Eric Cantor from the very beginning. They asked him what he is going to do once he`s left and he say, "I`m not going to do anything for a while." And I`m like, "If you`re not going to do anything why are you leaving congress?" What`s the change?

SCHULTZ: Because it`s all about him. It`s always been all about him. All right, before we go, you know, this shark mania that is taken place out there, Sharknado.

FUGELSANG: Yes.

SCHULTZ: Look, we`ve had shark excitement in the past. Remember the 70s and Jaws.

FUGELSANG: Yeah.

SCHULTZ: This is just a modern day of Jaws, isn`t it?

FUGELSANG: No, Jaws is a great classic film built on a Western premise. It`s a great movie. Sharknado is just, you know, ironically is the new bad and it`s just cheap fun and it`s stupid and it`s junk food and it`s goofy and, you know, I`m sure bong sales went to the roof after Sharknado aired. But I do want to add one more thing if I might on Eric Cantor, I do want to pay a little treaty (ph) .

SCHULTZ: Sure.

FUGELSANG: . to him Ed, because by leaving his job early he`s finally done what no one else in the GOP congress has manage to do. He has created one new job, so I salute you Eric Cantor.

SCHULTZ: John Fugelsang, good to have you with us tonight. Thank you so much.

FUGELSANG: Always a pleasure.

SCHULTZ: Coming up, Tea Party mouthpiece Ben Carson and his twisted message on equality and Christianity. The good duck lands in tonight`s Prentenders. Plus the brightest minds on the economy battled it out over the state of the country. Rapid Response Panel coming up. Next, taking your questions Ask Ed Live, right here on the Ed Show. Stay with us.

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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. We love hearing from our viewers. Sometimes it takes me along time to answer questions. Now, a week ago, in the segment, I was asked what really fires me up. I said, well its catch a 10 pound walleye. Well, take a look at what happened last weekend.

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SCHULTZ: That is a huge walleye. Wow, wow, that`s what we`re here for. Yes, sir, great, well job done. There you go. Wow. That is a big fish. That`s a nice walleye. This is a kind of fishing we have at North Country Lodge. Look at that baby.

The big story of the day, the economy adding 209,000 jobs in July, marking six straight months of job growth above the 200,000 level. The unemployment rate takes slightly higher up to 6.2 percent. And consumer product giant, Procter and Gamble saw a profit jump more than 30 percent this past quarter. Shares rose 3 percent today.

That`s it from CNBC, first in business worldwide.

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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. Well, the numbers are out. The July jobs report is out and even though the payroll gain was below expectations, it`s far from disappointing.

The new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the United States economy added 198,000 private sector jobs and 11,000 public sector jobs. It totals out at 209,000 jobs added in the month of July overall. The unemployment rate did add jobs slightly to 6.2 percent.

And folks I know it sounds counter intuitive but this is actually, I believe good news because the rise in unemployment is mostly the result of more people joining the search.

In July, the labor participation rate went up by a tenth of a percent to 62.9 percent. And the labor force group by 329,000, which marks the third consecutive monthly increase.

What`s the bottom line here? The U.S. economy has now added over 200,000 jobs per month for six consecutive months. The last time this happened was back in 1997.

July was the 53rd consecutive month of private sector job growth in this country. It is the long streak on record. 2014 is currently on track to be the best year for U.S. job creation since 1999.

Some people will trying to call this report disappointing, which is proof the overall landscape is improving and the standards have only gotten higher. Despite these gains, some Republican say, it`s not enough.

What do they expert say?

Joining me tonight our Rapid Response Panel, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, David Cay Johnston and also Peter Morici, who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Gentlemen, great to have you with us.

Peter, now I remember you and I have a conversation in the green (ph) room in Minneapolis. You were a little bit down at the (inaudible) on the economy at that time. This is back in 2009. So I`ve got a -- what has happened Peter? Tell us, from a conservative standpoint, what has happened? How good and how bad is this economy?

PETER MORICI, ROBERT H. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: Well, until now the Obama recovery has been about the same pace as the Bush recovery. But I think in this past 12 of months, if we suck out the influence of a very cold winter, things are finally starting to get better. Things are starting to (inaudible).

We really haven`t had the kind of jobs growth that we need but at least that`s been stable. You know, if we look at what happened between 1980 and 2000 it was much more rapid but at least things are starting to get better and I think if we continue to recover, now the Obama recovery will have a quicker pace than the Bush recovery. It will be in the upper tunes.

Now, it`s not the 4 percent that we need but let`s face it. Things are getting better. So I have to concede you that tonight.

SCHULTZ: All right. Please concede that this consecutive numbers of job growth in months is never been seen before as well. That`s pretty good considering where we were.

David Cay, what`s the best thing we can say about this economy tonight?

David, maybe you can`t hear me. I will ask you Peter. What`s the best thing that you can say about this economy tonight? With all the arguments set are out there, if you are in the classroom at the University of Maryland, what would you tell to your students? What`s the best thing out there?

MORICI: Well, maybe if I was in the oval office and the president was asking me, what`s the best thing I can say? And I would point to the manufacturing jobs growth. We are experiencing a renaissance in manufacturing. The president has put his shoulder behind that and that`s a good thing. I just wish we had more of it.

Part of the problem that we have is the manufacturing that we`re getting is extraordinarily high-tech from the point of view of production. It doesn`t require a lot of workers. But now we`re starting to get jobs growth in the mid 20,000 when we used to get it in around 10,000.

So, you know, it`s not the 100,000 I would like and that you would like but that is better. American is becoming more competitive. It`s becoming smarter and smarter and smarter. What worries me most and I think this is a challenge in no matter where you sit on the ideological spectrum is we`re not creating enough jobs for ordinary people, the people who really are happy with a high school education or a couple of years at community college.

We simply have to do better by them.

SCHULTZ: Well, you know, I`ve had conversations here in the Midwest with people on that, the tech schools. They don`t seem to be getting the students that they used to get.

Is it kids come out in high school -- they don`t want to work very hard. I don`t know if it`s work ethic issue or not or they want to go the professional route. But when it comes to, you know, skilled labor and skilled positions it seems like it`s hard to find good people and you know, folks have go into those kinds of jobs kind end up making, you know, six figures in their career within the first 10 years of work.

It is a changing economy and I want to focus in on what you just said about the manufacturing sector being high-tech. Are we going to see more of this? Have the traditional manufacturing sector, has the left America? Because when you look at the number of factories that we have seen closed and we have seen that the number of jobs that have shift overseas. I want your to take on that. What is the future of that sector?

MORICI : Well the future of that sector couldn`t be more positive, what I called middle tech, not making T-shirts and, you know, making say automotive parts, you know, were axel assemblies, things like that. it could be much more positive, replacement parts in the auto sector. If we did something about the currency issue with China and both of Bush and Obama Administrations has bee reluctant to do the kinds of thing that I have recommended and (inaudible), you know, on the right and on the left hand recommended, they haven`t been willing to discuss those things but we could do better in those median tech areas. What regard to the skill schools, you know, the schools for kids at a high school where they learn to trade, the real problem is we`ve sealed (ph) everybody in this notion, you got to go to college to be successful. And there all kinds .

SCHULTZ: Yes.

MORICI: . of paths to success. And, you know, we`re getting a lot of people come to college that really, I don`t want to say they`re not smart enough, it`s what are you inclining to do. Not everybody is like me that want to sit around and do abstract thinking all the time. I mean I grew up in the blue-collar neighborhood that guide down the street for me John Anselmo (ph) became a machinist. We were good buddies. We played lacrosse together.

He like to work with his hands and he made a good living as a machinist because he was happy doing that and he really got into that. Today that is discouraged. Where I went to high school, if you wanted to track they said, "That`s fine. We`re going to show how to make a good living that way."

SCHULTZ: Well, that job that you just described, I had a conversation with a gentleman owns a number of car dealers in the Midwest just last week. These high-tech technicians in the car industry that pay $80,000 to $85,000 a year, they can`t find people. They .

MORICI: I know.

SCHULTZ: . can`t find those -- do you agree with me on that? I mean, do you hear that as well?

MORICI: I have several friends who own strings of dealerships that at my club and I hear the same thing from theme. And you know, if you know anything about fixing a car, you know, I`ve been in conversation continuously through the automotive crisis with Ford.

If you anything about these cars today, they require a lot of branch to fix. This is not the work for dump people. It just happens to be people who like to work with machinery, work with their hands but .

SCHULTZ: Yes.

MORICI: . it requires a reasonable amount of training, a year or two. It`s not just tinkering anymore and it`s not intuitive. And it`s really ashamed but young people need to be encourage. You know here`s where I think -- want to ask me something that president could do this. Not ideological. He needs to start going on to the high schools and talking about why it`s a good thing to do those kinds of jobs.

SCHULTZ: Well, it is a good thing to do those kinds of jobs.

MORICI: Would nothing beneficial.

SCHULTZ: I think it would be beneficial. I thought it will be -- I think it will be beneficial if the congress could get together in the jobs package maybe we could try infrastructure but it might bring some people back into that far to the economy.

David Cay Johnston with us tonight as well. We`ve got our tech problems squired away. David, what`s the best thing you see out there about this economy right now?

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, PROFESSOR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LAW: Well, we`re continuing to get job growth and we will continue to have that and it would happen a lot faster if we had the government investing the future. That`s the single most important thing holding us back that we`re not putting to work people with things we need to do particularly fixing up our infrastructure. That would make job growth just take off.

SCHULTZ: Take off, give us the number. What would we be seeing? Would be adding 300,000 or 400,000 jobs a month as opposed to 200,000?

JOHNSTON: Depending on how much we spend, yes. There is plenty of slack out there. We could add 400,000 jobs a month, 400,000 jobs a month until we get to where we should be. We`re behind about 7 million jobs and it`s entirely on my view a function of austerity that has not worked to why overall we`re soft now than we were in the year 2000.

SCHULTZ: So, moving forward, if we don`t have a congress that wants to invest in anything, is this maybe as good as it gets?

JOHNSTON: Well, it should accelerate somewhat. I mean over time, we should see the economy as more people have (inaudible), we`re seeing the minimum wage raise in various places as we see people coming back into the workforce, the growth should accelerate some but not nearly to the degree that it should.

We used to come out a recessions like this now we`re coming like this and it`s mostly because of the government .

SCHULTZ: Yes.

JOHNSTON: . holding back the economy.

SCHULTZ: All right, David Cay Johnston, Peter Morici, great to have both of you with us tonight talking about the economy. The numbers out there are good. No doubt. Thanks for joining us.

Coming up, the all stars of immigration debate. Keep it here, we`re back.

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SCHULTZ: And Pretenders tonight, Dr. Distortion, Ben Carson. The Tea Party darling says fighting for marriage equality is the same as poking God in the eye. Carson joined the low rated family talk radio to trash Christians who defend same sex marriage.

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BEN CARSON: Well, you know, my emphasis is that marriage is an institution established by God himself, and when you look in the New Testament, you see that the marriage relationship is used to help us understand his relationship with his people.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s right.

CARSON: So when you start distorting that, I mean, you`re really going pretty deep into the finger-in-your-eye to God.

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SCHULTZ: Ben Carson`s accusation is more eye-rolling than I popping. The bible says, God wants you to love thy neighbor. Discrimination isn`t in the 10 commandments. If Ben Carson thinks pointing fingers well wash his hands of obstructing equality, he can keep on pretending.

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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. This is the story for the folks who take a shower after work, lots to interpret right now, I`d say that. This week the immigration debate has brought out the worst of the worst in the Republican Party. The level of discourse has really falling to new laws.

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STEVE KING, (R) IOWA: We have thousands of pounds of marijuana coming across the border. It is one the backs of young people that fit the very demographic of some of those that are in these facilities now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They did tell us that the 100 percent of the girls coming up from Guatemala were on birth control.

GOHMERT: They have said, they want to turn Texas (inaudible), they want to turn America blow. And if you bring in hundreds of thousands or millions of people and give them the ability to vote .

KING: The advertisement that has been a such a huge magnet that have caused these families to give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico and it`s a death path on the death string.

GOHMERT: Its President Obama`s lawyer is not going allow them to ask for an ID, so go vote or you`re going to loss your benefits, you`re getting now. That drives people to vote and it will ensure that Republicans don`t even get elected again.

LIONEL, LIONELMEDIA: Indeed. Its sounds like a -- it`s a death trap. Its sounds to get like a bad Spreve Stein (ph) cover band. It`s a path of death on the train of the -- it`s a suicide. Baby we`re born to run. As the great (inaudible) said, "Ed, how do they get so far?" What are we talking about? I mean .

SCHULTZ: No one knows what we`re talking about, what they have ginned up. First of all there`s a law on the Bush that forces this country to deal with these young kids who were being smuggled into the country. The congress won`t do anything.

LIONEL: They`re already here. How exactly are we going to either remove those who already here? And by the Ed, I don`t want to suggest xenophobia racism but when we talk about legal aliens, we`re not talking about the Swedish bikini team. We`re not talking about the Irish bar keeping in Shadyside. We`re talking about basically Mexican, which I get it and now we have the Ebola scare thrown in here.

So my question is if we were to snap our figures right now and every undocumented or illegal alien here today were to vanish, you know what would happen to the infrastructure alone in this country, in terms of commerce. That`s number one.

Number two, we`re talking about what, a 2,000 mile border, what kind of a fence or wall or divider are we talking about. And there is a -- if we were to build it, who do you think would be doing the construction for the very site? I mean, it is insoluble. I don`t mean to make light of it, do I may seem like I am, but it`s beyond my pay grade here today but the rhetoric Ed. The -- Michele Bachmann was talking about kids, kids being sold or turned over from medical experimentation. I don`t want to go back into ..

SCHULTZ: Oh, I know this is .

LIONEL: . historical (inaudible) of that.

SCHULTZ: It`s unbelievable. Right wing radio has also been taken over with the immigration talk. Here it is the anti-immigration talk.

JIM GILCHRIST: A convert Trojan horse invasion where you incrementally transfer the population of one country, say Mexico and Central America, China, Russia, all these countries who have violated immigration laws in masses and millions, transfer those people into the host country being the United States.

MICHELE BACHMANN: No only people with potentially terrorist activities but also very dangerous weapons are going to cross our border in addition to very dangerous drug, the American, and also life-threatening diseases potentially including Ebola and other diseases like that.

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SCHULTZ: Why do I think Michele Bachmann`s idea of immigration is that everybody has the last name Bachmann. I mean that`s about as far as she wants to go .

LIONEL: Ed, I don`t want that.

SCHULTZ: . when it comes to immigration reform in this country.

LIONEL: Ed, can we go .

SCHULTZ: And Glenn Beck back says we have to win a battle.

LIONEL: No, and .

SCHULTZ: We`re fighting -- we`re fighting here.

LIONEL: Glen said, if you have a problem, Huston, we have a problem. No, Michele Bachmann and others but then you`re killing me with this peroration from this. We have, not only the Mexicans, the Russians and Chinese, all of them Ebola (inaudible) weaponized, drug coding, drug trafficking, people who hate our -- oh, terrorist, all coming over. And here is the question, right now, I would say terrific, what do we do? And don`t tell me about the fence. Something tells me Ed that in our level of electronic sophistication, a fence, (inaudible) necessary cut it. What exactly is their solution? I`m waiting.

SCHULTZ: We will answer that question next week. Lionel, always great to have you with us on the Friday Edition of the Ed Show, thank you so much.

LIONEL: God bless you Ed.

SCHULTZ: And that is -- you between. That is the Ed Show. I appreciate your time tonight folks. I`m Ed Schultz.

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